It’s hard to run fast when you’re looking back. If you keep looking over your shoulder, you lose your forward focus.I can think of a few sports where it’s common to see an athlete with their shoulder turned slightly to receive a pass, catch a ball, o...

Let's start with a well-known idiom: The cobbler's children have no shoes. The modern-day version is the builder whose house is a tip, or a coach who doesn't turn their tools on themselves. This week, I turned the tools on my family, and anyone else...

Folks,Writing a book is not hard; anyone can do it, but not many can commit to the stress and strains of clearing the space to get the job done. That's emotional labour. The writing itself is a chore.I was chatting to a friend of mine last week, who...

Folks,A theme emerged for me last week that I didn't see coming. Yet, when it arrived, it made sense.A bit of backstory:Two coaches, one a grassroots coach and the other a creative, came to me with their courses. One was established but getting very...

Folks,I realised this week that for all the meetings and events I’ve curated, I still have plenty to learn when it comes to where I put the chairs. When Wendy Woon wanted to teach museum curators about how to design a space for interaction, she...

Folks,It's a decent headline, given that this weekend, in gardens up and down the country, there have been Easter eggs hidden in plant pots, bushes, and garden sheds for the little ones to find.I asked AI what the theme for my blogs was this week, an...

Folks,As promised, here is the link to a workshop I’m looking forward to hosting with Mike Coulter, Creative Director of the Do Lectures. It comes in the week in which the Scottish FA published their manifesto that argues that football can be a deliv...

Folks,In the book The Coaching Habit, author Michael Bungay Stanier has a question he calls the opportunity cost question: “If you say yes to this, what are you saying no to?” It's a great question. The reverse is also true.Howard Luks reminds u...

Folks,If you want to be a speaker, book a stage. If you want to be fit and healthy in your old age, don't think about what you used to do — start doing what you want to do. There is usually one thing that unlocks the thing you want to do. It might no...

Folks,You can work on the system, or more commonly, you can work in the system. Same for businesses and coaching, too.There is knowledge of the game and knowledge about the game.The green lumber fallacy, popularised by Nassim Taleb, reminds us that w...